Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 18, 1911, Image 3

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EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER, Oldest Paper in Sonta Carolina. Edgefield, S. C. 1 Even $10,000,000, wojth of peace la ?worth having. I Money talks, but lt will have to do non than that If it Insures peace. Every little while nobe ly's seismo graph is recording an ; i ar th quak a Every-year this world- drinks 1,250, 000.000 pounds of tea.* That seem? plenty. Whenever the dressmakers think of other outrageous spring styles they let na know. That latest earth shock might be traced to the militarists bringring up their heavy artillery. Still, feeding children on two cents a day and making them like it are two different propositions. If we must have so many warships why not get Mr. Edison to make a few with his cement molds? Now Peru and Bolivia are disagree ing. What South America needs ls a fight and revolt antitoxin. If motion pictures are to aid the in sane they should not be associated with nickel-theater ventilation. When a cold wave hits New York there are noses sympathetically red in Weehawken, Hoboken and Hacken sack. If all the New England hunting stories are true the abundance of ven ison should bring down the price of b?ef. -? No objection Is h-?ard from the young men of the family to the new tad of employing young women chauf \ ieurs. A ninety-three-year-olcl man has been left a fortune but refuses to give up .his job. He knows what has kept him alive. The Courier-Journal sotes the flne diflerence between the words "died" ?nd "passed away" as c.pplied to bank cashiers. It was a stroke of genius which made the census taking precede the opening of the shooting season for amateur hunters. Chicago highwaymen carried a vic tim three miles to rob him. That most constitute a violation of the interstate commerce law. A new i lill ion-dollar apartment house in New York is to have a kin dergarten, hospital and skating rink. 13l? three don't go badly together. ^ Mrs. Russell Sage ls going to build a model tow i for 1,500 model families near New York. But she may have to So ont of New York-to find her ten ants. When aerial freight transportation begins to become a fact, we shall hear some railroad men arguing that there is not enough air for the success of the plan. An Iowa judge granted a divorce to a man whose wife liked cigarettes bet ter than she did him. Must have been awfully good, cigarettes or a pretty poor husband. ' New York walters are opposed to the institution of the Bertillon system, .*r>*i the public will stand by them so far as pertains to thumbprints on the soap plates. ! Paragraphers all over the country jvffl mourn that it ls the society wom al of Philadelphia, Instead of Chicago, ?who are unwilling to show their feet CD a classic tableau. ',' Dr. Wiley says that the earth la cooling and that men will freeze to death on. the equator some day. From a maa who ls contemplating matrt jxnony one would expect a brighter .view. ! Last year Alaska produced $20,463. OOO gold, or about three times what ?Uncle Sam paid for the big territory. Some day Secretary Seward will have ki fine monument as a good judge of a areal estate bargain. - The students of Vassar proclaim Vtth pride that they can cook, and cook appetizing meals at that There is no danger in the higher education, ?ven for the conservative, when wom en take pride In their cooking as an accomplishment, and men, as a rule, do not care how rauch science and philosophy their future wives absorb as long es the absorbing process does ?ot Interfere with the prospect of .sood dinners when the cook ls on strike. In the silk war between Italy and Japan goods and prices cut much more of a figure'than battleships. The brave police president of Berlin o>as taken" a valiant stand against long 5r>?t pins, calling upon women to cease making themselves tn this respect a snenace to. mankind. The long hat pin affected by fashion Is really danger Ions, as those who have been jabbed In crowded cars or on the street can tes tify. If the women won't be reason able about it. won't they please be merciful? An ossified man has been married in Pennsylvania, but lt ls suspected that this ia not the first case on record. The census shows an average in crease In population in the New Eng land states considerably in excess of that in some parts of the west Iowa, for Instance, reports an actual de crease1 for Vie ten years since 1900, and but for gains in the larger cities Missouri also would have shown a falling-off. Conclusions that the east baa gone into decadence will have to be revised. WORK OF LAW MAKERS. Gov. Martin P. Ansel sent his fourth and last annual message to the Gen eral Assembly of South Carolina. The most imortant features are here with given: HIS LAST MESSAGE. MARTIN F. ANSEL Governor of South Carolina. ? Finances. Gov. Ansel renews his recommen dation that an extra one-half mill levy be made for the next few years, placing the "same in the hands of the sinking fund commission to be loan ed to the State until sufficient amount has been thus raised to do away with the necessity of borrowing Tances. The "inquisitorial method" is again urged to get the true and just value of property for taxation. He suggests that as many bonds as can be redeemed in 1913 be paid out of the funds of the Sinking fund coramission. Education. An act should be passed he sug gests allowing counties that need it for schools to use the funds of an other county that is not used for school purposes. i "There are in attendance at the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute 56 blind white children, 96 deaf white children, one deaf and blind child, 19 blind colored children, 33 deaf colored children, and the institution is run cheaper per capita than any other institution of the kind in the United States. "I recommend this school for the unfortunates to your wise and gener ous consideration." An inspector is recommended of the county convict camps and of county convicts. "Every now and then complaints have come to me of the condition of some camp or the unhealthy condition of the convicts or of their treatment, and while sjame of j the complaints may have had no foundation, still I regard it as wise and humane that an inspector should be provided for and tbs costs of the same be paid, by the inverai coun?ies of' the State." Governor Ansel again recommends an increase in the salaries of State officials. Senator Wharton wants to make it easier to catch fugitives from jus tice. He told of a cs.se where a re ward of $500 was ofEered and the prisoner having given bail skipped the State. There was a bond of $4,500 which was paid and the fugi tive was never caught as no detective agency would bother with a $500 sase. Mr. Wharton wants the bond to be divided into two parts the person ap prehending the guilty person to re ceive one-half and the county the other half. Mr. Wharton believea this wili aid in the enforcement of the laws. The Senate will visit Winthrop College on January 19th-Lee's birth day. If one skips his board bill there . will be a penalty of not more than $50 or imprisonment for not more than thirty days by the terms of an amendment to the act of 1908, a bill providing for the amendment being introduced by Senator Sullivan. Senator Carlisle introduced in the senate a "marriage license bill," a similar bill causing a great deal ot discussion in the senate. A number of senators.! have been heard to ex press themselves favorably toward the bill and the debate will doubtless be spirited. . The bill Senator Wharton intro duced provides that no circus show until it has paid a State license. The license is fixed at $50,000 per year. Senator Weston introduced a bill amending the child .labor law in South Carolina. This bill amends "A act to regulate the employment of children in factories, mines and manufacturing establishments in this State." The bill provides 16 years as the limit for work at night In mills and all exemp tions for children under 12 years of age c?ntained in the previous law are abolished. Mr. Mitchum: To limit amount of funds available to Clemson college from tag tax on fertilizers to sum of $175,000 for each year and to pro vide '"or apportionment of any sur plus funds arising from said tax among the free public schools of the various counties for their support and the maintenance therein of a course in primary agriculture. Senator Carlisle introduced a bill requiring the. railroads to accept cou pons from mileage books. A similar measure, introduced by Senator Gray don last year, provoked argument. The bill in the House raising the salaries of State officials was re ferred to the ways and means com mittee; which practically makes it ineffective for the approaching ad ministration. Mr Beamguard: To provide for the registration of chattel mortgages on crops and to fix the fee. Mr. Bodie: To amend an act en titled an act to regulate sale of co caine. Mr. Stevnson: To require the distribution of the dispensary fund among the common schools and to provide the method of distribution. Reapportionment Bill Reported Favorably. STATE REPRESENTATION SAME. Committee Does the Reapportioning Rather Than States-Conflicting State Laws-A Lively Fight Ex pected Over This Measure in House Washington. - The Crumpacker. congressional reapportionment bill, fixing the House membership at 433, exclusive of Arizona and New Mexi co? has been favorably reported to the House by the census committee on motion of Representative Bur leigh of Maine. The bill will be brought up in the House at the ear liest opportunity. The bill was amended in commit tee so as to provide that the Ap portionment should not be made by the Legislatures of the States, a pro vision usually made in the reappor tionment bills, but omitted from this one.because of conflicting legislation in several States covering the mat ter. The measure will provoke a lively, discussion when it comes up on the floor of the House, for there are many differing views as the the ' re apportionment. The 433 was fixed by the committee as the lowest num ber which would avoid reducing the numerical representation of States. SENATOR NOT ENTITLED SEAT. Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin Elect ed by Questionable Methods. Madison, Wis.-"The nomination in the primary and the election to the United States Senate by the Legisla ture of Isaac Stephenson are null and void, on account of attempted briberies and corrupt practice by himself and his campaign leaders, agents and workers, and of violations of the laws of Wisconsin defining and punishing offenses against the elective franchise." This Is the gist of the findings of a special senatorial investigating committee in its report submitted to Govenor Francis E. McGovern. The report is signed by Lieutenant Gov ernor Thomas Morris and Senator Spencer W. Marsh (Republicans) and Senator Paul Hustings (Demo crat.) Early in the legislative session of 1909, resolutions were itnroduced in both houses calling for an investiga tion of the senatorial primary elec tion. The resolutions were particu larly pointed at United States Sena tor Isaac Stephenson, who, according to his own report, filed with the Sec retary of State, expended $107,000 during the campaign. Savannah's Disgraceful Election. Savannah-Seven arrests for al leged vote grafting or efforts to buy or sell votes; announcement that Pinkerton detectives have received evidence that will result in many more arrests and a hard all-day struggle for votes marked Savannah's munici pal election which, one of the closest in the city's history, gave George W. Tiedeman the mayorality again by 240 votes. The council is divided be tween factions. Those who had fights were released on bond. Southern Banker Dead. Baltimore.-George A." Shmelz of Hampton, Va., one of the leading bankers of the South, died at the Johns Hopkins hospital. Death was due to ureamia o nd followed a sudden relapse. Mr. Schraeiz,. who was 57 years old, was the head of the Schmeiz Brothers' Banking House of Newport News, Va. He was a direc tor of the Bank of Hampton, vice president of the Newport News and Old Point Railway and Electric Com pany and one of the owners ef The Newport News Press. 1,00O,0C0 Cows Condemned. Washington-Meat inspection, by the Department of Agriculture was. responsible for the condemnation of 1,000,000 carc?~ces cf beef during the last ' according to the report* oi >. Melvin, chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. A standing appropriation of $3,000,000 annually is set aside for meat inspec tion. The sum of $2,940,000 was actually expended in the inspection of establishments in 237 towns. Fewer hogs were killed last year than the previous year. Census Cotton Ginning Report. Washington.-Cotton of thc growth of 1910 ginned prior to January 1, as shown by the late report of the bu reau of the census, was 11,087,442 bales compared with 9,647,327 from the growth of 1909 and 12,465,298 from that of 3908. The percentage of the last two crops ginned to Janu ary was 95.8 for 1909 and 95.3 for 1908. Round bales included this year are 109,296 compared with 143,949 for 1909 and 230,572 for 1908. Sea island bales included are 82,422 for 1910 as against 89,611 for 1909. vs. :> RESPONSIBILITY FOUND. Millionaire-Says That People Are Bled to Pay Dividends on Nine Billions of Watered Stock. Akron, 0.-Declaring that excessive freight rates are responsible for the high cost of living, Ohio C. Barber, the millionaire match magnate, has sent a letter to every member of con gress demanding reforms. In addition to the regulation bf freight rates, he demands that laws be passed that will effectually limit railroad and industrial capitalization. He declares the freight business cf the railroads costs each family* $87 a year. This latter, coupled with the oilier earnings of the railroads, he as serts, has boost?d the average rail road cost per-family to $127 annually. Barber starts his'letter to the con gressmen with these three demands: "What is the matter with Ameica? "What-is the matter With congress? "Why t has the seat of goevrnment been transferred to Wall street?" Continuing, he says: "Personally, I appreciate fully the ' importance of stability of vested rights in property, corporate or personal. "But I vigorously contend that the commission of excesses in the capital ization., of corporate companies for feits instantly the right to claim face value for such (Capitalization in the levying of a tax upon the American public for the payment of dividends upon this watered stock. And in this offense the railroads always have set the pace. "Conceived In the master minds of Huntington, Morgan, Hill and Hard man, tjris policy has been worked out to a nicety. These clothed the scheme^ih the pretty catch phrase of a 'community of interests' and cleverly set about to grab all the through trunk lines of railroad from coast to coast. "They argued plausibly, and with truth, that these trunk lines were the great arteries which maintained the life of commerce; that they were a necessity for quick transportation. "Approximately nine billions of this 18 bilUons of 'railroad capitalization is fictitious: purely and simply water ed stock upon which the people of the United States are taxed in rail road rates to miantain the annual div idends. "Despite this tremendous stock wa tering, the . railway net'earnings have advanced steadily and the aevrage dividend rate has more than doubled in the last 15 years. . "In 1894 the dividend rate was 1.6G ppr cent. Last year it averaged 3.68 per cent and the railroads earned a net income'?-'?ot $852,153,280. "And the people paid the freight! Railroad presidents indignantly deny that freight rates affect the cost of existence. James J. Hill.and W. C. Browne declare low acreage produc tion by the farmer is responsible for high prices. mates disagree. All seek to -niit'^ae responsibility. S. K. Gug genheim" says it is extravagance on the part; of the laborer. Ogden Ar mour says-it is the law of nature. "This one problem of railroad freight rates is the great economic question of the age. Were it fairly solved * all other lines of commerce and trade would soon adjust them selves and a more equitable distribu tion of the products of business would result "What are you going to do about it? "Yours in militant sincerity, (Signed) "O. C. BARBER." Ticket Collectors Permanent System. Washington-The management of the Southern Railway Company has not had under consideration any change of policy with regard to the employment of ticket collectors on its passenger trains. On the other hand, the results that have been ob tained ! are such as fully to warrant the continuation of the system. Scales of Justice Unbalanced. . Newark, N. J.-Mrs. Caroline B. Martin, one of the two surviving sis ters held under an indictment charg ing the murder of Ocey W. Snead, whose body was found in a partly fur nished house in East Orange, Novem ber -29, 1909, pleaded non vult before Judge Ten Eyck in the cqurt of oyer and terminer. This plea was accepted and Mrs. Martin was remanded for sentence. The plea of non vult is an admission of the act without intent of crime. Peary Was in Call'ng Distance. Washington-Hugh C. Mitchell, a skilled computer of the coast and geodetic survey, testified that he had handled Commander Robert E: Peary's observations. Mr. Mitchell said that he had figured that Peary when he made his furthermost camp was leBS .than five miles from the Pole and that In his marches on that day of the climax of his trip, he passed within one and one-sixteenth miles bf the actual Pole. The com mittee will soon report. Urge Greater Curtailment. Atlanta, Ga.-Drastic curtailment in th- manufacture of cotton goods until the prices of the manufactured pro duct assume a more correct ratio to the cost of the raw cotton was urged in a resolution adopted by the textile manufacturers' exchange here. More than 2,000,000 spindles in rfine South ern States and Illinois and Indiana were repreesnted at the meeting. All State organizations also were urged to co-operate in this movement. What will operatives do? Rate Advance Postponed Again. Washington,-Official announce ment was made by Judge Clements, acting chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, at the conclu sion of the arguments on the Eastern rate case of the further suspension of the proposed advances of the rates in official classification territory from Februars11 1 until March 15. The suspension was made voluntarily by the carriers in order to afford the commission additional time to discuss and ccBider the problems presented to it Brandeis Reason Why Rates Should Not Advance. HOW TO REDUCE THE EXPENSE Scientific Management Would Bring Proper Results-Would Save Three Per Cent, of Aggregate Cost-Steel Rails Cost too Much. Washington-"We coucend that rates are ample but that the expeuce of operation is excessive; that wages are not too high, but that, as the .management is unscientific, labor, material, equipment and r'ant fail to give adequate results. We plead for the introduction of scientific man agement, under which the railroads shall get 100 cents for every dollar expended." In opening his argument for the shippers of the Atlantic seaboard be fore the interstate commerce com mission, Louis D. Brandeis, of Boston, thus presented the funda mental reason, in his mind, why freight rates should not be advanced as proposed by the railways. Co-operation also, in Mr. Barn deis' opinion, would secure reduc tions in the cost of steel rails, in' the price of which, he believes, an enormous saving, could be made. He suggested, however, that no effort was being made hy the railroads to obtain a reduction in the price of steel rails because of the financial connections of railroad officials with the four great steel companies. "The economies which would re sult if all the railroads in the United States inrtoduced scientific manage ment have been estimated at a mil lion dollars a day," said Mr. Bran deis. "This would result in reduc ing the present operating cost of the railroads an average of 20 per cent." Mr. Brandeis concluded his argu ment with the declaration that the railroads of the country were con fronted with the greatest, opportun ity of their existence to increase the efficiency of their labor, equipment and plant3. Ii they should embrace the opportunity they would make for themselves and for the shipping interests of the country and of the world. If they should not the res.lt would be, in response to an irresist able popular clamor and demand, the government ownership of railroads of the United States. BEYRL E. CARROLL. Governor of Iowa. Des Moines, Iowa.-In his message to the legislature, Governor B. F. Carroll recommends consurrence in the proposed income tax amend ment to the federal constitution, an arbitration board for labor disputes and a non-partisan public utilities commission. Explosion Kills Five. Connellsville, Pa.,-Five dead and twelve more or less seriously injured is the result of an explosion of natu-1 ral gas here. It wrecked a well-filled ! five and ten cent store setting fire to and destroying the building and be fore the flames were checked, damag ed nine other structures. ' The explosion blew out the front wall of the building, tearing dawn telephone, telegraph and electric light wires which hung about splut tering and hampering rescue work. Seventeen Swallowed by Sea. Provincetown-Seventeen men were drowned in a wreck of three barges of the Reading Railroad tug Lykens, ac Hing to officers of three life & crews that made a heroic fight to reach them. They declare that there were seven men on one barge and five on each of the other two. The life-savers state that all 17 men of the three crews perished. The life savers declared that there were no more men on the barge. Sold His Wife for $8.00. Beverly. N .J.-Some weeks ago Cornelius Face, of Beverly, decided that he was tired of his wife and, j after some negotiations, sold the wo man to Joseph Flowers for $8.00. Mrs. Pace, apparently satisfied, DV came Flowers' housekeeper. Three days later Pace became tired of be ing his own cook and endeavored to cancel the trade. He sent the woman back. Pace now proposes to pay $40 toward a divorce, so his wife might marry Flowers. Southern Exploits South's Advantages Washington-A handsome and well illustrated booklet, descriptive of the agricultural resources and products of Georgia, has just been issued by the Land and Industrial Department of the ,Southern Railway and the Georgia Southern and Florida Rail way, for distribution in the North and West in the work which these railroad companies are doing in the effort to attract desirable setiers to the South through the exploitation of its advantages and opportunities. Other Southern StatesN will follow. PEARY AND NORTH POLE. . _I House Committee Examines the Arc tic Explorer-Admits Pele is Lost as Much as Ever. - Washington.-Admitting that the North Pole is just as much lost as ever and that all future attempts to find it must he independent enter prises unaided by his own work, Capt. Roberl E. Peary, the Arctic ex plorer, answered a cross :?re of ques tions at a hearing before the House committee on naval affairs. He told how he wanted the glory of the polar achievement for himself, declining to let any member of his expedition, oilier than the negro Hensop, go on tr:r- last dash with him; how his publishing contracts had precluded him from testifying before the com mittee last spring and how members of his expedition had been prohibit ed from writing about thc trip. Capt. Peary was asked to throw light on why, as a naval officer, he made no report to the Kavy Depart ment Mr. Roberts asked him if it was not customary for en officer to report on matters for which he was detailed. Captain Peary said he had made some report to the coast and geodetic survey and had advised the Navy Department of that fact. It was his impression that the superin tendent of the survey had made a report to the navy. Pressed by Mr. Roberts, Captain Peary said there wa3 a letter of his on file somewhere asking secrecy for his written repori to the survey, as to soundings, etc. "Why, being detailed to get cer tain information for the government, did you ask the government not to use this information until later?" In sisted Mr. Roberts. ' . "I would rather not give the in; formation except to the committee,' replied Captain Peary, who object?e to testifying in the preesnce of news paper representatives. He was giver permission to file his reason in writ ing. "Why did you not take the white members of your party with you on the final stage of your trip north ward, so that there might be credit able corroborative evidence?" asked Representative Roberts of Massachu setts. "In the first place," replied Captain Peary, "I have always made the final spurt, with one exception", when Lee was with me, with one man and the Esquimaux, because the man I took with me (Henson) was more effective for combined demands of extended work than any white man. The pole was something to which I have de voted my life, for which I had gone through such hell as I hope no man in this room will ever experience and I did not feel that I should divide it with a young man who had not the right to it that I had/' '. Captain Peary," replying,to repeated questions as to the results of his Arctic trip, said that he had not yet prepared 'such a chart as would en able any one to follow in his foot 'Steps to the pole, but he ^imagined" that he had data by which he could prepare such a chart. He said the position of the North Pole could be determined just the same as tb4: equator, but the trouble was the com parative low altitude of the sun, which never gets ?higher than 22 1-2 degrees above the horizon. For that reason ordinary observations could not be relied on with accuracy. Son Succeeds Father. Charleston, W. Va.-Gov. Glasscock has appointed Davis Elkins to suc ceed the late Senator Elkins, his father. He is the eldest son of the late West Virginia statesman. Mr. Elkins is now in Washington at the home of his mother. 30 Gallons Buttermilk at Reception. Oklahoma City, Okla.-Out of defer ence to the well-known prohibition scruples of Gov. Lee Cruce, butter milk was served at the inaugural re ception held in his honor here, in stead of the customary punch. Thirty gallons of the beverage was required to supply the crowd which streamed through the reception rooms to shake hands with the new Gov ernor. Governor Cruce attended the bali; but did net wear a dress suit. His only concession in the matter of dress was wearing a frock coat. About $45,000,000 More Pensions. Washington-The house of repre sentatives has parsed the Sulloway general pension bill, which grants pensions ranging from $12 to $36 a month to all soldiers who served 90 days in the United States army in the Civil war, or 60 days in the Mexican war, and who have reached the age of 62 years. The bill adds about $45,000,000 to the pension roll. / This amount will bring the total pension appropriation to an enormous figure. It continues to grow. Population Figures for Georgia. Washington-Georgia's municipali ties showing a population in excess of 5,000 made an average increase .of over 48 per cent, during the last ten years. Statistics of the thirteenth census indicate that they contribu ted 39 per cent, of the State's total increase in population of 392,790. This leaves 61 per cent, as the part of the increase contributed by the rural districts. The number of cities in 1900 hav ing more than 5,000 was 13, while 1910 shows 23, an increase of 10. Promerene Succeeds Senator Dick. Columbus, O.-In spite of thc bit terness of the late Democratic sena torial campaign, the victor, Lieuten ant Governor Atlee Pomerene, was elected to the United States Senate by the Lgislature by the vote of every Democratic member ?of that body. In the Senate Lieutenant-Governoi Pomerene received nineteen votes, and in the House seventy voteB. He " will succeed Senator Charles Dick. food Products Have Dropped Eggs, Butter and Poultry. IN COLD STORAGE FOR YEARS Overstocked is the Cause-Produce in Cold Storage Five Years-5,000,. 000 Pounds Butter to Go-Commis sion Men Heavy Losers. Chicago.-Millions of pounds o? butter, eggs, cheese and poultry held in cold storage warehouses here will be thrown on the market before May 1 and a general tumbling of food prices Is expected at oncer according to commission merchants. Numerous Chicago commission men are said to be facing failure as a re Bult of their efforts to maintain an i artificial price on the necessities of life. The inability further to uphold the price is said to be doue to a com bination of circumstances, chief ol which are the open winter of 1911 and the banner crops of 1&10. Three commission men failed in the last week as a result, lt is said, ol holding great quantities of butter, which they purchased at an average price of 31 cents a pound and now ar? unable to market for more than 27 or 28 cents a pound. While the wholesale prices of but ter and eggs have dropped within the last few weeks, there has as yet been no decline in the retail prices. Some of the produce whf'h now ia. to be unloaded on a falling market has' been in warehouses for as long as five years. By means of the cold storage houses, commission men have been able to maintain an artificial price not only to consumer, but to the producer, it is said. Thirty-two warehouses are said tc have* forty-four million pounds ol . butter, eggs and poultry. The increased sale of oleomargarine is' given as an added cause of the situation that the commission men now find themselves facing. Thou sands of consumers, unable to ; pay the price at which butter has been ' held, have become users of oleo margarine, according to Informatioi gathered here by dealers. Butter is six cents a pound lower wholesale than it was a year ago and is selling to grocers at the ' lowesl figure in five years. New York.-Commission, men ir New York announce the same con ditions in the trade as outlined ii.' the Chicago dispatches. The whole salers were emphatic in their state ments that substantial reduction* would be made and they wanted th? news made public in order that-th? consumer might demand correspond lng cuts from his 'aealer.*~"?u "othei words, they feared that the retaE men, although buying from jobber ai chaper rates, would maintain theil : prices to customers. According to the jobbers, the flnesi fresh eggs should sell here al from 33 to 35 cents a dozen as against from 50 to 55 cents last week. Th? finest grades of butter, they said should bring from 33 to 35 cents s pound, as compared with 50 to 5? . cents last-week. Kansas City.-"There has been nc decrease in prices of *meats or pro visions so far as I know, and th? price of meat promises to increas? soon," said a leading packer, whet asked regarding a reported change ir food prices. He also said that non? of the packing companies had any surplus of live stock and the price! which were strong last week would probably be higher during the cominj weeks. To Probe "Naval Hoodoo. Washington-Officers of the chiel engineer's office of the Navy De partment are preparing to make an investigation of the unprecedented series of accidents which have oe curred to naval vessels the past week, crippling four vessels. Th? battleship fleet lost two, the SoutU Carolina and the Michigan; th? au.} 'auo 1801 s^q uoipsnbs jssrruo Washington, while the gunboat Du buque, ordered to duty in CafibbeaB waters, is also to be laid up. White Men Attack Negro Minstrels Benton, Ark.-One negro man was killed, and one negro man and two negro women were injured in a race riot here following a performance by negro minstrels from New Or leans. The performers en route tc their boarding house were attacked by a party of 15 or 20 unidentified white men. Mayor M. H. Hollcmar. has called on all law-abiding citizens to assist in running down the perpe trators of what he terms "a crime that has disgraced the community.* j Great Battleship Launched. Philadelphia.-Amid the tooting ol whistl i, the ringing of bells and the cheers of thousands of specta tors the battleship Arkansas, the largest fighting ship ever constructed in this country was launched from the yard of the New York Shipbuild ing Company at Camden, N. J. Miss; Mary Macon, daughter of Congress! man Robert B. Macon, of Arkansas, was the sponsor and smashed a bot tle of champagne against the great prow of the ship as it slid away from her. A $3,500,000,000 Business. ' Washington-Aggregating almosl $3,500,000,000, the total value of the foreign trade of the United States during the year which ended Decem ber 31, 1910, was greater than thal of any year ever before, and left a balance in favor of the country ol over $300,000,000. They exceeded! the former high record of 1907 ba about $30,000,000. 1 Besides this new record, anothel record was broken during 1910 . in thl value of imports from abroad. Thew amounted to $1,562,807;622. . m